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The Blessed Ones (Блаженні)

Production Status
Сompleted
Release Date
2026
Country(ies) of (co)production
Ukraine, Germany, Latvia
Languages
Ukrainian, Russian
Duration
95’

Suddenly thrown into a brutal war, a group of Ukrainian artists must face a once unimaginable question: What can artists do when the world is burning? 

The camera observes them dealing with their own transformation and the changed sensibilities of people around them. 

News media fail to portray all the shades of wartime experience and all the mutations humans undergo, so it is up to them, the artists, to create a nuanced picture of this catastrophe for the benefit of current and future generations. 

 

CREW:
DOP: Andrii Lysetskiy
Sound: Pēteris Pāss, Oleh Holovoshkin
Music: Mykyta Moiseiev
Editing: Barbara Toennieshen, BFS Franziska Wenzel
Production:
Co-production: VFS Films, Corso Film
Funding:
Already engaged financial partners and funds: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in cooperation with ARTE
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